At UC Berkeley, Francesca and Bree are experiential educators who teach courses aimed at empowering Haas participants to navigate difficult conversations in the workplace based on role playing real world examples of workplace conflict. Their course has been featured on NPR: Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, and Poets & Quants. This course is part of the Center for Social Sector Leadership at Berkeley.
Bree is the former Manager of Leadership Development at Pixar Animation Studios where she designed and facilitated classes and workshops on Leading Inclusively, Effective Communication, Value of Feedback, Navigating Difficult Conversations, and the Art of Listening. She is a certified coach through Coach Diversity Institute.
Her educational background includes a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.